If you'll remember, NBC killed the idea for a Top Gear USA show starring Carolla, racer Tanner Faust and dapper doily designer Eric Stromer at about the same time they realized the Carpocalypse was gonna kill any chance they'd have of advertising. Also, there was the whole Knight Rider fiasco.

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The History Channel's an interesting choice for Top Gear. The positive is they've got a lot of cash to throw around thanks to their very high net worth viewers. The negative is it still won't be the UK version. Still, there's good people involved in the production of the show.

Now we hear on top of this is news Carolla announced on his CarCast show that he's up for one of the three hosting jobs and we're crossing our fingers someone we know very well makes it too. Carolla even mentions our bounty (they call us one of those "odd sites") at around 17:30 in the podcast.